The Hull and East Riding branch meets at the Nordic Centre (The Danish Church), Osborne Street, HULL. HU1 2PN. This is a five-minute walk from the train, coach and bus Interchange. There is a small car park, free to all attending events, and parking on Osborne Street is quite easy. Disabled access.  Our meetings are on Thursdays, 7.30 to about 9pm. Coffee and tea available at the end of the meeting, when we welcome additional discussion. We do not meet in December and January. Annual local membership is £12. Visitors £3, full HA members, students and unwaged are free.

Contact: Sylvia Usher (Secretary) 01482 448065 or email usher@usher.karoo.co.uk

Website: https://herha.org.uk  We provide email reminders with the date, title and additional information on each talk about a week in advance to all who sign up for this. Contact the Assistant Secretary, vivienfeetham@yahoo.co.uk . for more information

 

 

 

Hull & East Riding Branch Programme 2025-26

 

 

Thurs. 9^th October 2025

Rolls Royce Electric Car - 125 years in the Making

Duncan Feetham, Former Chair of Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation Archive

 

Thurs. 13^th November 2025

The Trail Blazers - The Life of Amy Johnson

Dr. Victoria Taylor, Aviation Historian

 

Thurs.26^th February 2026

Fidel Castro-Beatnik Revolutionary

Professor Simon Hall, University of Leeds

 

Thurs. 19^th March 2026

Robespierre’s Nose-the Physionotrace and Revolutionary Portraiture

Dr, Marianne Gilchrist, The University of Hull

 

Thurs. 23^rd April 2026

Elizabeth 1. A Difficult Queen

Helen Good. Ll.B Researcher, Later Tudor specialist

 

Thurs. 14^th May 2026

The Holderness Coast, the land that came and went

Richard Clarke, M.Phil. Landscape Historian